Best First Century Sayings
94 First Century quotes by 88 unique authors
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The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.
— Tania Bruguera
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General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many…
— Lawrence Venuti
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"You've experienced the way I can manipulate the emotions around myself, Bella, but I wonder if you realize how the feelings in a room affect…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive…
— Diane Wood
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I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for…
— Mark Galli
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... my century.. is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part…
— Whittaker Chambers
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It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of…
— Dalai Lama
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I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
— Bill Ford
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It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.
— Robert D. Kaplan
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The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.
— Chuck Hagel
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Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies…
— Stuart L. Hart
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Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new…
— Irina Bokova
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No one sane would let a first-century dentist fill their children's teeth. Why then do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children's minds?
— Michael Dowd
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Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that…
— Edward Norton
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Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major…
— Freeman Dyson
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be…
— Freeman Dyson
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together?…
— Eric Liu
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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
— Alexander McQueen
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Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed…
— Rob Sheffield
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Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in…
— John Green
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We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights…
— Sam Harris
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Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first…
— Arundhati Roy
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In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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